Multilingual Domain Names - activities in Japan - Dec. 6, 2001 Japan Registry Service Co., Ltd. 日本レジストリサービス.jp

2 History of JP domain names 1989 – Registration in the 3 rd -level domain name space –Organizational-type domain names co.jp, ne.jp, ac.jp,... –Geographical-type domain names tokyo.jp,... –Restriction of “one domain name per organization” –Local presence required Feb – General-use JP domain name space –ASCII domain names abc.jp –Japanese domain names 日本レジストリサービス.jp –No such restriction as “one domain name per organization” Local presence required

3 Introduction of General-Use JP Domain Names Changes of the Demands on domain names –Demands for more than one domain name per organization –Demands for simpler, lower-cost registration procedures –Requests for registration of short-lived domain names, such as those used in events –Demands for Japanese domain names Registration as second level domains –ASCII label –Japanese label

4 Introduction of Japanese Domain Names Japanese domain names, consisting of Chinese and Kana characters as well as ASCII characters, can be registered Japanese domain names are registered only as general-use JP domain names. Up to 15 characters 日本レジストリサービス.JP Top level domainSecond level domain

5 Categories of Reserved Japanese Domain Names Prefectures; large cities designated by ordinance; prefectural capital cities Single characters in Hiragana, Katakana, numbers written in Chinese characters, prolonged sound symbols, and others. – あ、イ、五、ー、 … Names of primary and secondary educational organizations (primary schools, junior high schools, etc.) –Names ending with “ 小学校 (primary school),” “ 中学校 (junior high school)” and “ 高等学校 (high school).” Names of international inter-governmental organizations (such as the United Nations) Names related to administrative, judicial, and legislative agencies Japanese common nouns –Ex) service, station, sightseeing,... (that may appear in yellow pages) Names required for JPNIC operations – ジェイピーニック、ドメイン名、日本語ドメイン名、 …

6 Phased introduction Priority registration –22/Feb/ /Mar/2001 –Trademarks, registered names, university names, personal names in full –In case of competition, registrants were determined by draw Concurrent registration –02/Apr/ /Apr/2001 –All applications which arrived in this period were regarded as arrived at the same time, not in the order received –In case of competition, registrants were determined by draw First-come-first-served basis registration –07/May/2001 -

7 Results of Priority Registration Priority Registration Applications Trademarks Registered names Personal names academic Total number of applications 8, ,900 12, ,100 12, ASCIIJapaneseTotalCategory 8,50025,40033,800 Number of domain names registered 6,50022,60029,100

8 Results of Concurrent Registration Concurrent Registration Applications Multiple applications Single applications Total Multiple applications 32,500 22,600 55,100 4,600 41,700 23,400 65,200 5,200 74,200 46, ,300 9,800 ASCIIJapaneseTotalCategory Single applications 22,60023,40046,000 Total 27,20028,60055,800 Number of domain names Number of applications # of domain names as of 1/Dec/2001 Traditional280,700 ASCII - General use118,000 ASCII61,300 Japanese

9 Technologies in Japanese JP domain names NAMEPREP+RACE mDNkit (open source) –Software library for applications –Software tool for nameserver software upgrade Applications –DNS Proxy –mDN wrapper (which intercepts communications and comnverts domain names) –IE + RealNames –Users can develop applications using mDNkit

10 Japanese Domain Names Association Activities –Information exchange –Standardization of usage –Development of a tool kit –Support for development and testing Members –ISPs –Application/Hardware vendors –Domain name registries/registrars –Universities Working Groups –Interface specification –Web –Mail –VoIP 日本語ドメイン名協会.jp